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Acheleis and Beowulf seem a lot different to me. Beowulf isn't a god's kid, but Achelise is. On top of that, Beowulf just seems like a lot less of a stuck up guy, and a lot nicer than Beowulf. Achelise wouldn't go fight with everyone jsut because he got in fight with one of the commanders or whoever it was, and they ended up losing. Because of this he lost his best friend, which was totally coming because of it. Beowulf helped the people get rid of grendel because the king had saved his father, so he owed it to him, and the people that were being terrorized by Grendel to kill him. This, in my mind, makes as Beowulf a much better person for the hero of a story if you had to choose between the two of them. Overall though, they are very simmilar. They are both heroes, both abnormally strong amazing fighters, and fight for someone else.
I'm small but mighty, and more than just useful. I can entertain you, and do work for you, but when i hit the ground, i'll stop it all.
All Three of the poems have a connection to loneliness and isolation through all of their examples of people that are alone, and isolated from the rest of the people. "The Wanderer" is a poem about a man who watched all of his friends and family get killed by a group of warriors, and is now alone. He can't find anyone else, and is poor. "The Seafarer" is a poem all about a man who is basically addicted to the ocean. He enjoys being out there by himself, even though there's no one else out there, and it's pretty miserable. He says in the 45th line that his desire for being out there is stronger than the desire for interaction with other people. The women in "The Wife's Lament" was sad and alone, missing her husband while she was exiled out on her own. Not only was she missing her husband, but she was exiled, and completely alone, isolated from friends or family. All three of the poems in our packet were written about people who were alone, and/or isolated. They all described the cause of the isolation/loneliness, and how bad it is for all of the people who are affected by it. All three of the people from the poems were sad and alone, and probably would've loved the chance to be back with people, except the man from the Seafarer. I don't know if this man was crazy or what, but he willingly isolated himself, like he didn't want to have anything to do with any other people. All he wanted to do was go out to the sea by himself, where it was cold and miserable.
My big question for English 11A was how do people tell the difference between good and evil. I think that's a very hard question to answer. There's a lot of small things that could make a difference between someone who's good and evil, such as their motivation behind their actions, and what was the effect of their actions on the people around them. If someone is doing something that people would consider evil, but they're doing it for reasons that some may not find evil, then is it still evil? Or if someone is doing great things, and everyone sees them as a hero, but they're doing all of these things for completely horrible, and selfish reasons, does this mean that they're still good, or would that make them evil. A classic example of this is smokey and the bandit. According to the law what the people were doing was wrong, and the cop was chasing them all across the country, but the movie portrays them as being the good guys, and the cop the bad guy. The only reason that the cop is chasing them as far as he does is all because of pride, and not because it's the right thing to do. That's one of the main ways that this movie makes the man that would usually be portrayed as the good guy, the bad guy. This is a great example to show how good and evil can almost be the same thing in a lot of cases, and in others be switched around. What truly makes the difference between good and evil, in my opinion, is the motivation of the person's actions, and what effects it has on the lives of the people around them. If they cause a lot of harm, or are doing whatever they're doing for completley selfish reasons, and it may destroy even just one of
I believe that monsters work everywhere. There are a lot of people that do things that will make everything someone else does twenty times harder, just to make it a little bit easier for them. There's people that are much worse than that, they'll do things that will destroy entire lives, just to make more money, or get power, or some other thing they want. A great example is slavery in the 1800's. They kidnapped people from their homes, separated them from their families, and sold them like merchandise. They gave them little to eat, treated them terribly, and made them work without paying them in any other way. In some areas things like that still happen today. Another place where monsters lurk is big organized crime bosses that kill, kidnap, and torture people, while providing kids with drugs. That's where I think that mo
I say that fate doesn't control our lives. There are millions of choices that people make everyday, and those choices are completely up to them. Our own choices, and the choices of others. The only way that something similar to fate could control our lives is because people will make the same choices over and over again, unless something happens to them to make them think differently. Mr.Spence's example of the drunk guy makes a good example. If he had left his girlfriends house 10 minutes later, then all of those kids in the minivan would still be alive today, but he would've been driving drunk another time, and would have a good chance of getting in another deadly crash. Even though all of those kids would still be alive, the guy still would've had a really good chance of killing someone else while he was drunk another time. So even though i don't believe that fate, i believe that things would happen similarly, even if you could go back in time and change certain events, then they would still end up li
A true hero is someone who is amazing. Someone who goes out of their way to help other people regularly is a true hero. A true hero wouldn't be someone who does a nice thing or two on the side once and a while. A true hero puts their whole life into helping other people that need it, and don't do it just to feel better about themselves. A true hero would be someone who serves in the military, a cop and puts real effort into their job, or other people like that, who put their wants aside to help other people with their needs all through their life. Someone who has a career in the military, and did it because they wanted to keep their country safe, and not just because they wanted to move up in the military for recognition, and to get a position of power would be a true hero. Ordinary people can't be true hero's, Because if they were just a being a true hero would take something more than what an ordinary person would put into being a hero. True hero's may seem a lot like ordinary people, but any one who knows them would realize that they are much more than an ordinary person.
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